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Book News: January 19, 2018

Bloomsbury has announced the 20th anniversary editions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! I was wondering if they’d be issuing entire anniversary sets or not, and it sounds like they definitely are. At first I wasn’t thrilled that they swapped the colors of the covers so that the hardcovers are now colored and the paperbacks are black, but it sounds like they’ll be alternating the colors throughout the series so that they’ll be striped on your shelves, which is kind of neat.

I’ll admit, this news is making me very happy that I only picked up one of the anniversary editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, as I can’t imagine collecting eight more sets of Harry Potter. I think I have plenty already! But a girl can dream…

In other Harry Potter news, Scholastic has announced that Brian Selznick will be illustrating seven new covers to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the American printing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. They’ll be released in July 2018.

I’m not familiar with Selznick’s work, but I’m still really excited to see what he comes up with! Though a small part of me hopes I don’t love them too much so I don’t feel compelled to buy yet another set of Harry Potter books.

2018 will be magical! As part of our year-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, we will be publishing new editions of the series, featuring cover art by Caldecott Medal-winning artist, Brian Selznick. https://t.co/re3PHNYePB

Rick Riordan’s newest book has a cover! I am embarrassed to say I still haven’t read the second book in his Trials of Apollo series, so I definitely have to get on that before the release of The Burning Maze on May 1, 2018!

We have a cover for Eloisa James’ new book! It’s called Too Wilde to Wed and will be released on May 29, 2018. I’m a terrible person and still haven’t read James’ three past releases despite owning signed copies of two of them, so excuse me while I go correct that oversight.

We also have a cover for Julia Quinn’s new book, The Other Miss Bridgerton, which is schedule for publication on May 22, 2018.

Head over to @byshondaland for the exclusive first look at the cover for Julia Quinn's forthcoming book "The Other Miss Bridgerton" — and the author's explanation of how it came to be! https://t.co/PFmZUBQyFz

I guess we’re on a role with cover reveals, as we now have a cover for Zoraida Cordova’s upcoming book, Bruja Born, which will be released on June 5, 2018. It actually looks like they’re doing a cover redesign for this series, which I’m disappointed in since I loved the original cover of Labyrinth Lost so much, though these covers are also cool.